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Letter from Rev. G. Townshend of Amherst to Chearnley regarding the bearers of the letters. They are representatives of the Mi'kmaq in Minudie and on Parrsboro road on the way to Halifax for the annual dole of blankets. Also request cloth for the same Mi'kmaq.
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Indians
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Rev G Townshead
1859
Copy to Capt Chearnley 16th Nov
Amherst
Novr_ 4th 1859
My dear Sir_
The bearers are Indian Representatives about to visit Halifax to obtain their annual dole of blankets_ There are at Minudie & on the Parrsboro Road eleven or twelve families numbering forty-eight souls of which twenty nine are adults, the rest - young children - If you can get some strong white cloth to make some of the men coats it will be very acceptable. Pray exert yourself on their behalf it is a work of mercy
Date: 1859
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 102
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